Support for flexible tubing.



H. A. KRETSGHMER. SUPPORT Ion FLEXIBLE TUBING. APPLIOATIOH FILED PBB. 8, 1909.

Patented June 1, 1909.

C. A M m m u n w m n P B R m u 7 HENRY A. KRETSOHMER OF PRINCETON, ILLINOIS.

SUPPORT FOR FLEXIBLE TUBING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Application filed February 8,1909. Serial No. 476,708.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. KRETSOH- MER, citizen of the United States, residing at Princeton, in the county of Bureau and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Flexible Tubing, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in suspension devices for gas burners in which a rotatable reel is employed to support and have coiled thereon, a section of gas tubing which leads to a burner-tip.

The especial object of my improvements is to provide simple forms of means for supporting the tubing so that same may be quickly extended or coiled and will be held in adjusted positions; to produce a device that will not be liable to get out of order, and one in which the danger of leakage of the gas will be removed.

A further object is to provide a device that can be quickly and easily attached to any ordinary gas fixture and in which provision is made for a stationary as well as an adjustable burner.

I have illustrated my improvements in a preferred form in the accompanying drawing in which:-

Figure 1 is an end view of my invention;

.Fig. 2 is a vertical section of my invention,

and Fig. 3 is a side elevation with a part broken away and showing the operation of one of the hanger arms.

Referring to the details of the drawing 4 represents a vertical gas burner which is supplied with the usual cock 5. This burner projects from a tubular goose-neck 25 which is adapted to be connected directly or by a tubing with any suitable gas fixture, such connection not being shown as it forms no part of my invention.

6 represents a Tcoupling which is fitted to the goose-neck 25, and has its horizontal branches connected with the tubular arms 7 and 8. The arm 8 is pivotally mounted in the coupling 6 and at its pivoted end is filled by a plug 27, while at its free end is secured a hooked-shaped block '9. This block is adapted to engage the squared end of a fixed shaft 12, and is held in engagement therewith by a nut 10 which screws into the outer end of said shaft. The outer end of the frame-tube 7 has a spherical block 11 secured thereon.

On the inner end of the shaft 12 is mounted the hub 13 of the reel, the other members of said reel being the shells 14 and 20. Within the shell 14 is arranged a coiled spring 15, the outer end of which is secured to a pin 16 fixed in the inner face of the shell near its periphery, and the opposite end is secured to a pin 17 in the shaft 12. To the shaft 12 is secured a ratchet disk 18, the recesses of which are adapted to be engaged by the free ends of pawls 19 which are pivotally mounted on the outer face of the shell 14, thereby locking the reel against rotation in a manner well understood in the art. The shell 20 corresponds in general construction to the shell 14, but has holes through its inner and outer sides to receive the angular fitting 21 which is supplied with a bore 22 extending throughout its length. The outer end of the fitting 21 which is tapered, is supplied with a nut 23 the head of which bears against the terminal 11 and thereby serves to draw the fitting tightly into the taper bore provided therefor in said termi nal. The outer end of the fitting 21 constantly communicates with the frame-tube 7 and the inner end communicates with the end of the flexible gas-tubing 24 which is coiled around the hub 13 between the two inner sides of the shells 14 and 20.

It will be apparent that by loosening the nut 10, swinging the arm 8 as shown in Fig. 3, and removing the nut 23, the reel and the parts connected therewith may be entirely separated from the supporting frame or hanger composed of the tubes 4, 6, 7, 8 and 25. Pins2b on the outer face of the shell 14 are so placed as to prevent the gravity pawls 19 from being thrown outwardly too far by the centrifugal action due to the rotation of the reel.

If the goose-neck 25 be attached to a sidewall fixture, the burner 4 can be used as well as a burner on the outer end of the flexible tubing.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, is

l. A support for flexible tubing, comprising a tube adapted to be connected with a fixture, a tubular frame communicating with said tube, a non-rotatable shaft detachably connected with said frame, a reel rotatably mounted on said shaft, said reel composed of two hollow shells connected by a hub, a coiled-spring secured in one of said shells and adapted to rotate the reel in one direction, and a fitting extending through the other shell and having a conduit therethrough, the outer end of said fitting being supported in the tubular frame.

2. A support for flexible tubing, comprising a tube adapted to be connected with a fixture, a bifurcate tubular frame communicating with said tube, a shaft detach-ably connected with one branch of said frame, a reel rotatably mounted on said shaft said reel composed of two shells connected by a hub, means Within one of said shells for retating the reel in one direction, means in the other shell for conducting gas theret-hrough,

said means comn'iunicating with the other branch of sald frame, and automatic means for stopplng the rotatlon of sald reel.

A support for flexible tubing, comprising a tube adapted to be connected with a, fixture, a tubular frame eonneeted with sald tube, a reel rotatably supported on said bular frame and at the other end with the 5 space between said shells.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. KltE'lbCllMifl l. Witnesses N. L. llioimnnsox, J. A. Gnnxn'rir. 

